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talking again with 20 days to go until the fiscal cliff. major garrett is at the white house watching all the negotiations. major, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, norah, charlie, and gayle. lots of activity and where there's activity there's hope but not a lot of progress. speaker boehner and president obama talked by tell phone. i'm told the phone call did not go particularly well and they remain divided. they're going to allow business to go on until december 28th. the president remains confident a deal will get done. on monday the president gave republican as new offer, trimming his request for ten years of income tax revenue from $1.6 trillion to $1.4 trillion. he told republicans yesterday he's willing to put tax reform into the mix of negotiations. the republicans said the president is still asking for way too much in tax revenue and they always thought corporate tax reform would be part of the larger way. it's hard to come to a deal when one side officers concessions and the other side says the concessions are merely d
talking again with 20 days to go until the fiscal cliff. major garrett is at the white house watching all the negotiations. major, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, norah, charlie, and gayle. lots of activity and where there's activity there's hope but not a lot of progress. speaker boehner and president obama talked by tell phone. i'm told the phone call did not go particularly well and they remain divided. they're going to allow business to go on until december 28th. the...
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. >> is your administration prepared to go over the fiscal cliff? >> absolutely. >> negotiations are still up in the air. most lawmakers have gone home for the long weekend. >> i'll be here and i'll be available at any moment to sit down with the president to get serious about solving this problem. >>> duchess of cambridge has left hospital. she was being treated for severe morning sickness. how are you feeling this morning, kate? >> as of today, possession of small amounts of marijuana become legal in the state of washington. >> it feels so good. >>> nominees for the grammy awards, top contenders include kanye west and jay-z. >>> kobe bryant, the greatest player in the history of the los angeles lakers. >> all that -- >> are you ready for your mistake, costas? >> can eating while driving be distracting? >> no! >> and all that matters. >> former senator simpson is bringing his message to a new generation. >> gangnam style. >> on "cbs this morning." >> boo boo a star earning a spot on barbara walters 2012 list of most fascinating people. >> then barb
. >> is your administration prepared to go over the fiscal cliff? >> absolutely. >> negotiations are still up in the air. most lawmakers have gone home for the long weekend. >> i'll be here and i'll be available at any moment to sit down with the president to get serious about solving this problem. >>> duchess of cambridge has left hospital. she was being treated for severe morning sickness. how are you feeling this morning, kate? >> as of today,...
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said the white house is, in fact, ready to go straight over the fiscal cliff. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. later on this afternoon the president will travel across the potomac river to northern virginia to meet a middle-class family to make the self-evident point if the there is a deal and taxes are raised by about $2,000 they'll be happier and spend more money. that's the p.r. side of this. much more importantly, for the deal, the two key players yesterday picked up the phone. the phone call relatively brief and substantive, though details remain illusive. shorter, sources say. the last week 28-minute conversation described then as curt, direct and frank. no one with this call used such barbed words and occurred before treasury secretary tim geithner laid down this harsh fiscal cliff marker. >> if the administration, are they prepared to go over the fiscal cliff? >> absolutely. no prospect or agreement that doesn't involve those rates going on on the top 2%. remember, only 2%. >> report
said the white house is, in fact, ready to go straight over the fiscal cliff. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. later on this afternoon the president will travel across the potomac river to northern virginia to meet a middle-class family to make the self-evident point if the there is a deal and taxes are raised by about $2,000 they'll be happier and spend more money. that's the p.r. side of this. much more importantly,...
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. >> budget talks go nowhere, as the fiscal cliff grows closer. >>> house speaker john boehner is warning his fellow republicans not to make christmas plans. >> it's getting really stale. it's getting really old. the closer we get to christmas, it's really getting boring. >> oregon police have identified the gunman who shot up a portland area mall. >> 22-year-old jacob tyler roberts did not appear to know his victims. >> i think we all need to be very thankful that this incident wasn't much worse. >> veteran john ham mar has been in a mexican jail for taking an illegal weapon into the country. >> bring this marine home. >>> an overnight manhunt at cal state fullerton. s.w.a.t. teams searching for two suspects who led police on a wild chase. >>> a shocking murder plot to kill justin bieber, has just been foiled by police in new mexico. >> the golden globe nominations just announced out in hollywood. "lincoln" leads with seven bids. >> i don't need to be schooled by you, okay. i've been in this business quite a long time. >> well, you just were. >> and all that matters. ♪ >> when the stor
. >> budget talks go nowhere, as the fiscal cliff grows closer. >>> house speaker john boehner is warning his fellow republicans not to make christmas plans. >> it's getting really stale. it's getting really old. the closer we get to christmas, it's really getting boring. >> oregon police have identified the gunman who shot up a portland area mall. >> 22-year-old jacob tyler roberts did not appear to know his victims. >> i think we all need to be very...
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no discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. mr. obama left that drama behind and told supporters in suburban detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. >> if congress doesn't act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1st, everybody's going to see their income taxes go up. >> reporter: boehner and house republicans want to preserve all the bush era tax rates due to expire at year's end, shielding everyone from a tax increase. mr. obama wants to raise them for households earning more than $250,000 a year. he has so far resisted gop demands for spending cuts to health care or education. >> i'm not going to have a situation where the wealthiest among us, including folks like me, get to keep all our tax breaks and then we're asking students to pay higher student loans. >> reporter: even so, democrats worry mr. obama might cave to republicans, their biggest fear, the president will do what he considered in 2011, raise the eligibility age for medicare, a top house democrat monday warned the white house to tread light
no discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. mr. obama left that drama behind and told supporters in suburban detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. >> if congress doesn't act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1st, everybody's going to see their income taxes go up. >> reporter: boehner and house republicans want to preserve all the bush era tax rates due to expire at year's end, shielding everyone from a tax increase. mr. obama...
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. >> we've only got 25 days until the fiscal cliff. >> according to "new york times," house speaker john ba boehner has asked democratic leaders to step aside so he and the president can negotiate a deal one on one, and no one is objecting. >>> the crisis in egypt remains volatile, with massive anti-government rallies planned today. >>> heartbreaking survival story for a woman stranded in the snow in the california sierra nevada mountains. >>> shoppers at a seattle macy's had to be hospitalized when an escalator they were riding malfunctioned. >> fire to the end zone. touchdown. >> broncos with their eighth straight win. >> all that -- >> three, two, one! >> my 50th birthday, she gives everybody a car and then she's all, thank you for coming to gayle's birthday! >> we're talking about oprah, right? >> no, of course not. >>> and all that matters. >> south carolina tea party says jim demint is resigning. >> leaving the senate a lot better than i found it. >> jim demint leaves some big shoes to fill. >> jim demint leaves some big shoes to fill. then again -- captioning funded by cbs en agai
. >> we've only got 25 days until the fiscal cliff. >> according to "new york times," house speaker john ba boehner has asked democratic leaders to step aside so he and the president can negotiate a deal one on one, and no one is objecting. >>> the crisis in egypt remains volatile, with massive anti-government rallies planned today. >>> heartbreaking survival story for a woman stranded in the snow in the california sierra nevada mountains. >>>...
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there are only three weeks left until the fiscal cliff, but there's signs this morning the stalemate in washington is starting to break. >> and that's good news for both sides of the aisle. president obama and house speaker john boehner met face to face sunday for the first time in nearly a month. major garrett is at the white house with where things stand this morning. >> reporter: speaker boehner has told the white house and his fellow house republicans he wants the outlines of a fiscal cliff deal no later than this saturday. and if that's to be achieved, events of this past weekend may have proved piftal. obama and boehner met here at the white house sunday, and that meeting left both hopeful those subsequent conversations at the staff level achieved little apparent progress. even so, the president extended the invitation to boehner friday after boehner, for the first time in a press conference, publicly at least hinted he might be open to raising the top income tax rates on the top 2% of american household income earners. that may have cleared an opening for the president and boe
there are only three weeks left until the fiscal cliff, but there's signs this morning the stalemate in washington is starting to break. >> and that's good news for both sides of the aisle. president obama and house speaker john boehner met face to face sunday for the first time in nearly a month. major garrett is at the white house with where things stand this morning. >> reporter: speaker boehner has told the white house and his fellow house republicans he wants the outlines of a...